Ornament for sleeveless dresses

ABSTRACT

This invention consists of a strip of covered feather-boning having a plurality of snap fasteners or the like adapted to secure the aforesaid strip to the underside of a strip of tape that is secured to that part of a sleeveless dress from which the arm of a lady extends. A plurality of plastic rings are secured by any desired means in longitudinal spaced relation to one another to the underside of the aforesaid featherboning.

United States Patent Lindblom Oct. 31, 1972 [54] ORNAMENT FOR SLEEVELESS2,568,826 9/1951 Roussos ..2/244 DRESSES 2,688,136 9/1954 Freedman..2/244 X [72] Inventor: Slgne R. Lindblom, l0 Beech St, gags: GardenCity, N Y 530 [22] Filed: March 4, 1971 Primary Examiner-Alfred R. Guest[21] Appl. No.: 121,026 [57] ABSTRACT This invention consists of a stripof covered featherlll. boning having a plurality of snap fasteners orthe like [58] g l 186 adapted to secure the aforesaid strip to theunderside 7 f 63/2 of a strip of tape that is secured to that part of asleeveless dress from which the arm of a lady extends. A plurality ofplastic rings are secured by any desired [56] Rderencgs Cited means inlongitudinal spaced relation to one another UNITED STATES A T to theunderside of the aforesaid featherboning.

2,334,498 11/1943 Merkent ..2/ 126 v 6 Claims, 4 Drawing Figures m n mumm2 3,701.166 I INVENTOR SIGNE R. LINDBLOM '1 ORNAMENT FOR SLEEVELESSDRESSES This invention relates to ladies dresses; more particularly, todresses of the sleeveless type; still more particularly, to an ornamentthat is secured to the aforesaid sleeveless dress at the point whereones arms extend from the dress.

It is the principal object of this invention to provide an ornament forsleeveless dresses that will provide a means of attachment for ribbons,scarves, jewelry or the like to that part of the dress from which onesarm extends.

Another object of this invention is to provide an ornament forsleeveless dresses that can be secured to that part of nearly any dressfrom which ones arms extend in a minimum of time and with a minimum ofeffort.

Still another object of this invention is to provide an ornament forsleeveless dresses that permits complete movement of the arms.

Other and further objects and advantages of this invention will no doubtappear as the reading of this specification and its appended claimsproceeds and the accompanying drawing is examined in connectiontherewith.

In the drawings:

FIG. 1 is a pictorial view of this invention secured to a ladies dressand having a plurality of ribbons attached thereto.

' FIG. 2 is an exploded pictorial view of this invention.

FIG. 3 is a pictorial view of an optional form of this invention.

FIG. 4 is a pictorial view of the major portion of this invention.

In the several views of the accompanying drawing, like parts of thisinvention are indicated by like reference numbers.

Directing ones attention to FIG. 2 of the accompanyin g drawing it willbe seen that this invention consists of a strip covered featherboning 7to the top side 8 of which is suitably secured a plurality of male snapfasteners 9 that are adapted to securement to the female snap fasteners10 that are sewed or otherwise secured to the underside of a'strip oftape 11. The justmentioned strip of tape 11 is suitably secured to thatportion of a ladies dress that is indicated by the capital letter D anddrawn in phantom lines in FIGS. 1 and 2 of the accompanying drawing. Aplurality of small plastic rings 12 are swingably secured by any desiredmeans to the underside of the aforesaid strip of covered featherboning 7inward of each end of the just-mentioned strip which is provided with aplurality of larger rings 13 that may or may not be of a different colorfrom that of the first-mentioned rings.

Looking now at FIG. 1 of the accompanying drawing it will herein be seenthat the above described ornament is so secured to that part of a ladiesdress from which ones arms extend that the major part of this inventionis invisible to ones eye and yet provides a place of securement for eachend of a plurality of ribbons 13 or the like whichever meets the desiresof the lady having this ornament on her dress.

Looking now at FIG. 3 of the drawing it will be seen that there isherein illustrated that portion of a ladies dress D from which the armextends showing the facing 14 to hich this in ention 's attached.

It W lII be unders iood by those experienced in the art on reading theabove description of this novel invention that this herein describedornament can be used in combination with any color ribbons, scarves,jewelry or nearly any other desired device to create chic sleeveletswhich strands may be ribbons, scarves, or strands of jewelry of hundredsof variations.

This invention is subject to any and all changes in detail design and/ormodifications in so long as the changes and/or modifications fall withinthe scope and intent of the appended claims.

What I now claim as new is:

1. In combination with a sleeveless dress, a strip of tape secured tothe inner surface of said dress and extending adjacent to the peripheryof the opening for ones arms, a plurality of speced fasteners secured tothe inner surface of said strip of tape, a strip of flexible material, aplurality of mating fasteners secured to one face of said strip offlexible material, said mating fasteners spaced to mate with said firstmentioned fasteners, and a plurality of rings secured to said strip offlexible material in spaced relation to each other.

2. The invention of claim 1, wherein the said strip of flexible materialis covered featherboning.

3. The invention of claim 2, wherein the said rings are plastic rings.

' 4. The invention of claim 3, wherein one or more ribbons or the likeare suitably secured to two or more of the said plastic rings.

5. The invention of claim 3, wherein a scarf is suitably secured to thesaid plastic rings.

6. The invention of claim 3, wherein jewelry is suitably secured to thesaid plastic rings.

1. In combination with a sleeveless dress, a strip of tape secured tothe inner surface of said dress and extending adjacent to the peripheryof the opening for ones arms, a plurality of speced fasteners secured tothe inner surface of said strip of tape, a strip of flexible material, aplurality of mating fasteners secured to one face of said strip offlexible material, said mating fasteners spaced to mate with said firstmentioned fasteners, and a plurality of rings secured to said strip offlexible material in spaced relation to each other.
 2. The invention ofclaim 1, wherein the said strip of flexible material is coveredfeatherboning.
 3. The invention of claim 2, wherein the said rings areplastic rings.
 4. The invention of claim 3, wherein one or more ribbonsor the like are suitably secured to two or more of the said plasticrings.
 5. The invention of claim 3, wherein a scarf is suitably securedto the said plastic rings.
 6. The invention of claim 3, wherein jewelryis suitably secured to the said plastic rings.